Eric Tutton News Today

A Davidson County businessman fights his former employer after he allegedly violated a settlement after stealing customer and supplier information.

To embed, copy and paste the code into your website or blog: When one thinks of a “reasonable” temporal scope for a restrictive covenant between employer and employee, usually that period is measured in months or years, not decades. But as a recent North Carolina decision reminds us, context is everything, and a 10-year restriction can be enforceable in the right circumstances. In KNC Techs., LLC v. Tutton, 2021 NCBC LEXIS 38 (N.C. Super. Ct. Apr. 8, 2021), Eric Tutton (“Tutton”) ente...